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Volleyball is a team sport where two teams, typically with six players on each team, are separated by a net. The players on the two teams hit an inflated ball back and forth over the net, trying to avoid having the ball hit the ground on their side of the net. To put it in simple terms, volleyball is a team sport in which the goal is to keep the ball alive while it is on your side of the net but to kill the rally by putting the ball down on your opponent’s side of the net....

No, it doesn’t stand for good times, but chances are if you own one, you’ll experience plenty. GT most commonly stands for Grand Touring or Gran Turismo. More specifically, the Random House Unabridged Dictionary defines GT as “an automobile in the style of a coupe, usually seating two but occasionally four, and designed for comfort and high speed.” An automobile awarded the GT designation by its manufacturer generally means the vehicle is high performance and, unlike a race car, features an interior built for comfort....

“Amen Corner” is the nickname given to the 11th, 12th and 13th holes at Augusta National Golf Club, home of The Masters Tournament. Those holes make up a key stretch of the back nine on the golf course, holes where exciting things often happen that affect the outcome of the tournament. We’ll go over the three holes more below, but first let’s make an observation plus answer another question: The Specific Meaning of Amen Corner Has Expanded Slightly Over Time...

Funk music evolved from blues and soul, and is distinguished by its syncopated rhythms and melodic groove that brought the bass player to the forefront. Bootsy Collins became famous for providing the bass for “The Godfather of Soul,” James Brown, and the legendary Larry Graham held down “the bottom” for Sly & The Family Stone. Graham revolutionized the bass, inventing the percussive “slap bass technique” which was adopted by many musicians and became a standard element of funk....

Having first built a reputation as a genial everyman with stammering folksy charm, James Stewart turned his persona upside down when he began a fruitful collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock in 1948. Though they teamed up for only four films, their work together proved to be one of the most highly regarded actor-director partnerships in Hollywood history, even greater than Hitch’s collaboration with ​Cary Grant. Whether he was playing a wheelchair-bound photographer who believes his neighbor committed murder or a private investigator who becomes obsessed with a dead woman’s doppelgänger, Stewart delved deeply into uncharted psychological depths, giving Hitchcock some of the best performances by an actor in any of the director’s films....

Matt Stone and Trey Parker have been working together for almost two decades on more than just “South Park.” Between them, they’ve won a Grammy award, Emmy awards and Tony awards. (They nearly nabbed an Oscar!) Their work extends beyond their animated comedy series. This filmography lists their movies and other DVDs. 01 of 05 Team America: World Police Paramount Pictures Some of us loved it. Some of us were disappointed....

Ludwig von Beethoven (1770–1827) is one of the world’s most famous and influential composers of classical music. His music has been played all over the world for two centuries. Even if you’ve never been to a concert hall, if you’ve seen a movie—any movie—in your life, chances are you’ve heard music by Beethoven. As we will see, Beethoven’s music is used extensively on the silver screen. The Soundtrack of “Immortal Beloved”...

There are heavy putters, and then there’s the Heavy Putter. Heavy Putter is the name of a line of putters, and it was once the name of the company that introduced those putters around 2005. And “heavy putter” has also come to be used as a generic term for a genre of putters that are, well, heavier than typical putters. Today, the company has a different name, its line of Heavy Putters still exists, but this genre of putter is more commonly referred to as counterbalanced putters or counterweighted putters....

If you’re a Ford Mustang enthusiast, you have probably heard other collectors talk about the K-Code Mustang. What was this coveted K-Code Mustang all about, and what made it so different from other models of its time? The K-Code Mustang was a special-edition Mustang made between 1965 and 1967 that came from the factory with a special 289 high-performance cubic-inch engine beneath its hood. In its day, it was quite a beast on the road....

Every season brings a shiny new batch of on-trend children’s movies, but if you’re looking for classic family films that will entertain both kids and adults, go to the classics. Here are eight terrific movies you may remember from your own childhood. 01 of 08 ‘The Wizard of Oz’ MGM We used to watch The Wizard of Oz on TV every Thanksgiving, and I remember being scared right down to the toes of my footie pajamas by those flying monkeys....

If you are swimming in a pool and reach the wall, what do you do? The most obvious thing to do is stop, call it a workout, climb out and head for the showers. If you swim more than one lap, turning is inevitable. What is the best way to change directions? That depends on what best means for you. In this case, it might be the one that stays within the rules, or maybe is the quickest, simplest, or the most restful way to head back where you came from....

There are plenty of funny viral kids videos on the web, but something about little kids dancing is even more entertaining than “Charlie Bit My Finger” and doped up kids who just had dental surgery. For example, check out the following five videos of little kids who are totally getting down on the dance floor. Oh, and when you’re done laughing with these dancing kids, go laugh with kids with really, really terrible haircuts or kids who made the biggest messes humanly possible the second their parents’ backs were turned....

Call it what you want—being laid off or downsized, getting dismissed or fired, receiving your pink slip or your walking papers—losing your job hurts. Job loss often ranks among the highest in stress on a list of life-altering events such as a death in the family, divorce, and serious illness. It can have a profound effect on your emotional well-being. There is a typical cycle that most people experience when they go through the loss of a job....

If you’re sure you want to close your eBay account, it’s an easy enough process. Click on the Close My Account link, fill out the form and submit. Be aware that there may be caveats associated with account closure, in keeping with eBay’s terms and conditions. You should read about permanently closing your eBay account before you attempt to do so, to be sure that it’s what you really want. If you don’t think you’re going to use your account frequently, you can just let it go dormant, and it will still be there if you ever decide to use it again in the future....

A duplet – a type of tuplet – is a note-grouping of two, which fits into the length of three of its note-type. For example: Eighth-note duplets span the length of three normal (or “straight”) eighth-notes. Sixteenth-note duplets span the length of three 16th notes (or a dotted eighth-note). Note that while many tuplets split a beat into smaller parts, the duplet expands the length of its notes. For example, a triplet makes three notes span two, therefore reducing each note within to 2/3 its original length....

“Wakeboarding is the younger (and now more popular) brother of water skiing,” says Sam Haddad on the website, Cooler Lifestyles.com. To ride a wakeboard, you strap yourself onto a special board, securing your boots, also known as bindings, onto the board. (The boots are adapted from snow skiing, which also had an influence in the development of the sport.) You’ll then hold onto a tow rope as a motorboat tows you through the water—in a manner very similar to water skiing....

What are the highest scores ever posted in a PGA Tour tournament round? Officially, we don’t know, because the PGA Tour doesn’t keep that record. But unofficially, we can say with some confidence that the worst pro tour golf scores ever belong to a golfer named Mike Reasor. What we can say with absolute confidence is that the scores posted by Reasor in the third and fourth rounds of the 1974 Tallahassee Open are the highest ever recorded by a PGA Tour player after making the cut....

Businesses examine every area of their supply chains to reduce costs. Reducing waste is a key component of any cost-reduction program that is implemented, and there are a number of processes that can be used to do so. When companies are considering waste minimization programs, they will find that some costs will be required in the implementation. However, as those programs come online, the reduction in waste will produce cost savings greater than the initial investment....

Five-card stud is the original form of poker and dates back to the time of cowboys and outlaws sitting and gambling in old West saloons. It’s not as popular as it was during the American Civil War, but it is still a game worth learning because it’s the basis for many other games and it’s super easy to learn. How to Play Each player is dealt one card facedown and one card faceup....

There may be no greater cradle of talent in Major League Baseball than the Dominican Republic. The country’s history with baseball dates to the late 1800s. The first Dominican player, Ozzie Virgil, made it to the majors in 1956. Out of more than 400 players to make the big leagues, here are the 10 best in MLB history to come out of the Dominican Republic. 01 of 10 Pedro Martinez...